Asam, Zakirjan - short clip - watermelon
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| - | I asked for watermelon, | 0:00 |
| and I pick the seeds from watermelon. | 0:02 | |
| I said, what do you think? | 0:04 | |
| Can we plant watermelon? | 0:07 | |
| Just try because climate was very good. | 0:09 | |
| And I decided to try and | 0:11 | |
| Speaker 1 | Which camp is this? | 0:16 |
| - | Camp Eguna. | 0:18 |
| We had a little bit more freedom. | 0:21 | |
| Speaker 1 | The guards let you? | 0:24 |
| - | Yeah. They, when I asked the commander of the camp, | 0:25 |
| he said, we cannot give it to you, | 0:27 | |
| And they are special permission from Washington | 0:30 | |
| and from Pentagon from somewhere, | 0:32 | |
| and they said, okay, but give them plastic, you know | 0:35 | |
| like a net, other things, plastic, not metallic. | 0:38 | |
| And I said, okay, but when they gave | 0:43 | |
| I should give it back before evening | 0:45 | |
| even those plastic instruments, you know | 0:47 | |
| and I asked for instruments and we grow, you know | 0:50 | |
| and that we had more than 28 watermelons, | 0:53 | |
| like this size, you know? | 0:57 | |
| Speaker 1 | Woah | 0:58 |
| - | Yeah. And then what happened? | 0:59 |
| You know, Saipanmath, one of the commander of that camp, | 1:01 | |
| He was taking by the video camera, but in interview, | 1:05 | |
| and he explained, we are working for detainees, | 1:10 | |
| we are growing watermelons. | 1:12 | |
| He was on the pictures of newspapers. | 1:14 | |
| And I saw the picture, | 1:18 | |
| that black sergeant was working in. | 1:19 | |
| They announced as they're working for the nature, | 1:22 | |
| growing watermelon. They are, you know, | 1:25 | |
| growing flowers for detainees. That was my job. | 1:27 | |
| Not him. | 1:29 | |
| Oh, that was terrible. | 1:31 | |
| Speaker 1 | Did you ever eat any of your watermelons? | 1:33 |
| - | Oh, most of them. More than 28, I said, | 1:35 |
| because I count them and I grew cantaloupe. | 1:37 | |
| It was really sweet. | 1:42 | |
| Yeah. | 1:44 | |
| Speaker 1 | And you got to eat them too? | 1:45 |
| - | Yes of course. | 1:47 |
| Speaker 1 | Could you share them with the other? | 1:48 |
| - | Yeah, because they were afraid because, | 1:49 |
| with other detainees, yeah, for sure. | 1:51 | |
| Because that time we left only four, we were four. | 1:53 | |
| And even I fed soldiers, they were afraid | 1:56 | |
| because they were prohibited to any food offers, | 1:59 | |
| because they afraid of get poison from us. | 2:02 | |
| We were terrorists. | 2:06 | |
| So we could do anything. | 2:08 |
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